A popular coming - of -
age drama featuring three close friends who love surfing, Big Wednesday was semi-autobiographical for the director and remains popular today.
Not exact matches
Featuring fun songs and interactive
drama, the Mad Hatters are geared for
ages 3 to 7 — but all
ages of literary lovers are welcome!
Malkovich met with near - universal critical praise and garnered an Academy Award nomination for the neophyte
feature director — as well as supporting actress Catherine Keener and writer Charlie Kaufman — though Stipe and the film itself were passed over for a Best Picture nod.Despite Single Cell's increasing prominence in the industry, Stipe continued to support C - Hundred for smaller - budgeted niche
features such as writer - director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward and McKay's coming - of -
age drama Our Song, both of which were
featured at the 2000 Sundance Film Festival.
The debut
feature from David O. Russell is a coming of
age drama starring Jeremy Davies as Raymond, an intelligent young man who comes home from school to reluctantly take care of his mother.
Five other
feature films complete the Best Picture line - up, including the financial crisis comedy -
drama «The Big Short,» Cold War - era
drama «Bridge of Spies,» coming - of -
age tale «Brooklyn,» harrowing
drama «Room,» and journalism docu -
drama «Spotlight.»
Filmmaker Karyn Kusama has at last fulfilled the promise she showed in her knockout
feature debut, «Girlfight,» a pugilistic coming - of -
age drama from 2000 that also launched the career of its scrappy star, Michelle Rodriguez.
EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of -
age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a US narrative
feature prize at Tribeca.
By: Jeremy Kay EXCLUSIVE: The edgy distributor has picked up Canadian rights to Justin Tipping's coming - of -
age drama and winner of the best cinematography in a US narrative
feature prize at Tribeca.
Denzel Washington balances the scales of justice — and challenges Liam Neeson for a slice of the middle -
aged action - hero pie — in «The Equalizer,» an ultraviolent update of the 1985 - 89 CBS
drama series that
featured Edward Woodward as a former government agent turned pro-bono avenging angel.
Emerging Swiss filmmaker Lisa Brűhlmann discusses her
feature debut, coming - of -
age drama Blue My Mind combining harsh reality and myth
Also new: coming - of -
age high school comedy Dude (2018, not rated) with Lucy Hale and Alexandra Shipp and romantic
drama Porto (2016, not rated, with subtitles)
featuring Anton Yelchin in one of his final performances.
Telluride broke out Damien Chazelle's audacious musical romance «La La Land,» starring Best Actress Globe and SAG winner Emma Stone, as well as Barry Jenkins» coming - of -
age ensemble
drama «Moonlight» (A24),
featuring SAG Supporting Actor winner Mahershala Ali («House of Cards»).
This Brazilian coming - of -
age romantic
drama features Leonardo (Ghilherme Lobo), a blind teenager hungry for independence.
Britell cut his teeth as a virtuoso pianist at an early
age, landing in Juilliard's pre-college division, but since then he's become known for his finesse to deliver an emotional range to both
drama and comedy
features.
OK, the script strong - arms us into surrender here and there, but more often it gently takes an elbow, exactly as Chbosky did in his previous
feature, 2012's soulful and compassion - filled coming - of -
age drama The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Some of you may have seen his first two
features — the teen -
drama / time - travel film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time and the techno - apocalyptic dysfunctional family dramedy Summer Wars — but the director tops himself with his third and latest film Wolf Children, a stunningly beautiful, unabashedly sentimental, and surprisingly complex story that works as both a coming - of -
age film and a study of the trials of being a single mother.
A24 has unveiled the first trailer for actress Greta Gerwig's
feature directorial debut, an indie coming - of -
age drama titled Lady Bird, being released by the excellent A24.
Sheila Roberts: Swedish - Sami writer - director Amanda Kernell makes an impressive
feature debut with «Sami Blood,» a moving coming - of -
age drama set in 1930's Sweden.
The titles ranged from the sci - fi mega-hit «Avatar» and the Pixar animated
feature «Up» to the tear - jerking sports
drama «The Blind Side» and the female coming - of -
age tale «An Education.»
The list includes «Colette,» a historical biopic with Keira Knightley as the famed French novelist; «Monsters and Men,» a
drama about police brutality that
features John David Washington (son of Denzel); «Wildlife,» a coming - of -
age story that marks the directorial debut of Paul Dano; and «The Catcher Was a Spy,» a historical thriller with Paul Rudd.
Winner at the Fingal Film Festival for Best
Feature, South is an amiable coming - of -
age drama that captures warmly the awkwardness of youth, e.g. trying desperately to get served in off - licences to impress the opposite sex, getting into conversations with odd people by accident and not knowing how to excuse oneself.
Behind - the - scenes
drama occurs all the time in the entertainment industry, but even in this
age of tabloids, Internet gossip, and DVD bonus
features, most of it remains unknown, covered up out of professional decorum and to avoid attracting negative publicity to a production.
Already boasting a Foreign - Language Oscar nomination for «Incendies» and a string of strong independent
features, Villeneuve continues to prove his deeply confident footing in modern day cinema, bringing intelligence and muscular and mannered nuance to a somber and extremely tense studio
drama that doesn't deign to ever spell things out (the ending is probably the most bold studio finale we've seen in
ages and seemed to even puzzle some).
Behind the Scenes has a college -
aged protagonist and
features an eclectic cast of
drama students.